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Bitmain’s IPO filing reveals that it’s doing well despite the bear market.

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If you bet that the SEC would delay its bitcoin ETF decision again, you’re a winner.

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In a biting op-ed on CoinDesk.com, former EY employee Angus Champion de Crespigny writes that permissioned blockchains may have no real business benefit.

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CoinDesk editor Marc Hochstein investor Jalak Jobanputra on blockchain’s progress in the developing world and advancing women’s participation in the industry.

Host Pete Rizzo has the rest.

Recorded September 27, 2018 in New York, NY.

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Coinbase is gearing up to rapidly expand the range of crypto assets it lists.

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A new Ethereum scaling solution is out, and will be ready sooner than any other technologies aimed at scaling the second largest blockchain so far.

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Mining hardware manufacturer Bitmain has officially filed for an IPO, providing new business details in the process.

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Cryptocurrency representatives mingled with at least one Congressman at a D.C. event on Tuesday. But regulatory clarity is still a long ways off.

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CoinDesk editor Marc Hochstein interviews attorney Preston Byrne on the legal issues around ICOs, ether and XRP and whether stablecoins can really work.

Host Bailey Reutzel has the rest.

Recorded September 26, 2018 in New York, NY.

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We traveled to the Concordia Annual Summit in New York City and spoke to four leading voices in the blockchain world, asking each one: how useful is a blockchain, anyway?

Hear answers from investor Jalak Jobanputra, Microsoft's Yorke Rhodes, attorney Preston Byrne, and Hyperledger's Brian Behlendorf in conversation with host Marc Hochstein.

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On a special episode of Late Confirmation, we visit the Concordia Annual Summit in New York City, where a broad range of thinkers and creators from different fields gather alongside the UN General Assembly. In this episode, we sit down with four notable attendees from the blockchain sphere and ask them each one question: Where is blockchain tech on the hype cycle?

The Gartner hype cycle, for those who don’t know, tracks the expectations of a new technology over time. Developing technology can hit the Peak of Inflated Expectations before falling into the Trough of Disillusionment, from which –– if successful –– it will emerge onto the Slope of Enlightenment. As a subjective measuring tool, the hype cycle can be useful thought experiment for thinking about discussions of blockchain technology.

Our interviewees in this episode include Hyperledger’s Brian Behlendorf, attorney Preston Byrne, Microsoft’s Blockchain Engineering team Project Manager Yorke Rhodes, and Jalak Jobanputra, founding partner of Future/Perfect Ventures.

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A new research paper claims that tether has had no meaningful impact on the price of bitcoin.

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Bitmain unveils another ASIC, but it’s light on detailed specifications.

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3D-printed gun creator and bitcoin advocate Cody Wilson has been arrested in Taiwan following charges from U.S. police that he paid for sex with a minor.

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Independent software developer Alexey Ak-who-nov has built a new tech solution for ethereum that may use significantly less disk space.

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CoinDesk reporter Nikhilesh De joins host Bailey Reutzel to discuss new deadlines for SEC decisions on bitcoin ETFs.

Recorded September 21, 2018 in New York, NY.

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Cryptocurrency exchanges react furiously to a new report from the New York Attorney General’s office.

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Another Japanese exchange loses millions of dollars to hackers.

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Cypherpunk veteran David Chaum has a new coin: Elixxir.

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CoinDesk research analyst Peter Ryan joins host Marc Hochstein to discuss the latest statistics on blockchain venture capital and ICOs.

Recorded September 20, 2018 in New York, NY.

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Banking giant PNC has adopted Ripple’s technology for cross border payments

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Leaders at R3 believe that enterprise blockchain industry will soon see consolidation.

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Binance says it will launch a cryptocurrency exchange on (almost) every continent.

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CoinDesk editor Stan Higgins joins host Bailey Reutzel to discuss a newly released report from the New York Attorney General’s office following an inquiry into the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges.

Recorded September 19, 2018 in New York, NY.

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Another stablecoin?! Yes, believe it or not. This time, it’s a token anchored to the Japanese yen.

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Kyber Network is adapting the technology beneath its decentralized exchange to allow merchants to accept payments in any ethereum token. 

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CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen joins host Bailey Reutzel to discuss the use of bitcoin by Palestinians, and the remaining hurdles to cryptocurrency adoption in the Palestinian Territories.

Recorded September 18, 2018 in New York, NY.

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Cloudflare says it's made it easier to access the InterPlanetary File System or IPFS.

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Bancor partners with EOS for a new cross-chain product.

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A U.S. district court ruled to seize the assets and property of Alexandre Cazes, the deceased Canadian who allegedly was behind the darknet marketplace AlphaBay. Among that property? A 2013 Lamborhini Aventador.

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MIT Media Lab’s Michael Casey joins host Marc Hochstein to discuss the inverse relationship between the price of ether and the value of the Ethereum network.

Recorded September 17, 2018 in New York, NY.

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IBM and Hacera launch a crypto “yellow pages.”

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R3’s CordaCon event draws big crowds as rumors swirl about the company’s cash crunch.

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GAW Miners founder Josh Garza has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to a wire fraud charge.

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CoinDesk’s Rachel Rose O’Leary joins host Marc Hochstein to discuss recent developments on ethereum’s road to becoming scalable.

Recorded September 14, 2018 in New York, NY.

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